Evolution History
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Bronze age to the Silk Road
Light comes to Europe
Age of global empires
- Hypothesis of mechanism for evolution promoted by Lamarck 1803AD⊕
- The swan song of creation science 1812AD⊕
- First photographs 1826AD⊕
- First prehuman fossil found (not immediately recognized) 1829AD⊕
- Geology proves an old Earth 1830AD⊕
- Natural selection discussed 1831AD⊕
- 'Fossil man' hypothesized 1841AD⊕
- Chambers: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 1844AD⊕
- Gorillas discovered by the scientific community 1847AD⊕
- Second prehuman fossil (not immediately recognized) 1848AD⊕
- Communist Mannifesto penned 1848AD⊕
- Pleistocene archaeology discovered with 'Pleistocene Man' 1849AD⊕
- First ethnography describing kinship terms and cultural structure 1851AD⊕
- Neanderthal cranium discovered and recognized as important 1856AD⊕
- Wallace writes letter about natural selection to Darwin 1858AD⊕
- Origin of Species 1859AD⊕
- 'Psychic unity of mankind' discussed 1860AD⊕
- Earths age stated to be between 20 and 400 million years old 1863AD⊕
- Cultural anthropology book 1861AD⊕
- Homo neanderthalensis named 1864AD⊕
- Herber Spencer conceives social Darwinism 1864AD⊕
- Culture defined in its modern sense 1874AD⊕
- Francis Galton coins phrase Nature vs. nurture 1874AD⊕
- Athiesm and nihilism 1882AD⊕
- Homo erectus discovered 1891AD⊕
- Perception of the unconscious mind 1896AD⊕
- American anthropology founded 1896AD⊕
- 10-1 Ma
- 1-0.1 Ma
- 0.1Ma - 8000BC
- 8000BC-1000AD
- 1000-1900AD
- 1900-2000AD
- 21st Century